Tearing Down the Shack on Lakeside
Exactly how rich do you have to be to say, “Hmmm, I think I’m gonna tear down that mansion on Lakeside between two other big mansions and build an even bigger mansion.”
Just curious.
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Jackie Onassis Kennedy defended the tearing down of Grand Central Station in New York by saying, “If we don’t care about our past, we cannot hope for our future.” If this continues to happen, what will Dallas look like in a few years? What will happen to our history? What happens to the buildings and architecture that rooted us here in the first place. It will eventually get replaced with carbon copy houses , and perhaps the loss of creativity. Is beauty worth having the houses touch each other?
In this “forclosure market’, apparently you don’t have to be very rich to say such things and make them happen. Sad.
If it continues to happen, Lakeside will eventually look like some prefabricated planned development. I drove through my old neighborhood down Tulane in UP and I could have sworn I was in ‘Little Frisco.’
What is wrong with Frisco?
What’s curious about this is that the guy is the chairman of Centex Homes, has lived in the same house in Northwood Estates or something for like, twenty years, and decided to tear the house down almost a year after he bought it. He’s also not carrying a huge mortgage. Its like ten million, but it isn’t huge for the lot and what he wants to do with it. So my question is, is he protecting assets because he thinks that he’s about to be indicted/sued/divorced/sent to gitmo, or does he really want to build what, by the time he’s done, will be a thirty million dollar house. Just askin’. Also, Bush is going to build on WilloWood. Hunch, but hey, Rusty Rose lives next to this, like, vacant lot. Heard it here first.